My Christmas Tree

There's not much too it haha

TMNT

A fitting throwback to when me and the boys dressed up as TMNT for Halloween. 

Thinking about dialogue.

1. Me and Colby went to the gym, followed a few people around up stairs and listened to some people in the power mech hallway. We listened the gym people for about 5 minutes, the people we followed upstairs for about 5 minutes also and the people in power mech hallway for a brief minute. The conversations were between 3 groups of different people we didn't know. It felt like we we shouldn't have been listening but at the same time it was funny. 

2. Some people like to use sound effects while talking, example "just whip the ball at him like whoosh" and when regarding a sock conversation you can see how boys who normally wouldn't care about it they would love to hear it from a girl. 

3. Creeping on people and hearing them talk helps expand your dialogue because not all people talk the same as you. 

4. Personality and character are revealed through conversation because most of the time you can judge how someone will speak by the way they look, but in some cases that is not true at all. 

5. The conversation becomes less intimate and becomes people trying to be more funny or show of rather than showing their feelings through a personal one on one conversation.

6. There tends to be a leader/leaders in the conversation and everybody else seems to talk about what the leader is saying.

7. Texting people tend to let there feelings out more, maybe this is because they don't have to see the persons facial expression which could lead to them getting hurt. 

Huskies lacrosse.

Pretty depressing photo, that game we lost in the provincial finals. It was the last quarter of the game and it was tied. There was about 10-15 seconds left on the clock when the ball comes rolling to me and I put it in the net and we were sure that we won.. The other team West K calls a stick check where they look at the stick that scored the goal and see if it's legal, I knew my pocket was fine but the only thing I didn't have was a butt end. Something covering the end of my shaft.. The goal was disallowed, them we lose in the 3rd overtime. One of the most devastating things that's happened to me for sure. I will always hear butt end jokes from the guys I know on the other team and the occasional from my own team.  

Huskies

Team photo of the hockey team

Imagery paragraphs

1. Why did you select this passage?

I picked it because it immediately made me imagine what it would look, feel and sound like. 

2. What type of imagery is most common? 

For the quotes I picked I think kinesthetic  was the most common although I see it as the most challenging to write about, I can feel exactly what they were describing. 

3. what is the best snippet of imagery within this passage? Why is it so effective?

I think the kinesthetic imagery when it says how Noah's arm was probably numb and I knew exactly what it meant and I could relate to it right away. 

4. Is the imagery positive or negative? How do you know? Give some words as examples to support this. 

I think most of the text is neutral because I couldn't find any words that support a negative or positive effect. 

5. What mood/emotion is being created by the author? How do you know? 

The author is trying to make us feel bad for Sadie (Plath) because in the full quote she was having a bad dream about her dead family. 

6. What is the purpose of this piece of imagery? The purpae of this piece of imagery is to give more detail to Sadie's dream and give the reader a better understating of it. 

Quickwrite - alien stick up.

"Don't tell them where you are" whispered the blue man. I had no say in what to do because he was pointing a gun straight at me. I was talking to my family on the phone and the only thing they wanted to know was my location, I simply told them to not worry and that I'll be home soon. I couldn't figure out why the blue man had kidnapped me and what he and his monkey wanted with me. The monkey smelled horrendous, like it was bathed in dirty water and wiped down with dirty clothes. This blue man and his gun was nothing like I've ever seen before, and whenever he talked it's like the movement of his mouth didn't correspond with what I heard. "Let's go now" he demanded. I didnt know where we were or where we were going but we all left the crowded phone booth, I wasn't sure if it smelled worse than the monkey or not. So we started walking, it was a rainy night and we seemed to go on forever. We were in the middle of nowhere, and finally the man yelled "STOP, now start digging". This was it I thought I'll never get home to my family. Well I knew I was gonna die, I decided to try and go out with a fight. I swung my shovel at the monkey and struck him in the face, it hit the ground hard and wasn't moving. Now I had to try take out the towering blue man, but he was already gone. I was sitting in the middle of the desert alone, I look over to the monkey and it was also gone, I made my way home and me and my family moved towns and I tried to forget what happened.